rauliruegas
Responses from rauliruegas
| Looking for tonearm inspiration @atmasphere : " are several grades harder than those used in the SME arms. "several grades? : how many grades and where are stated ?Harder?, so what: wich its radial play, surface finish, material, tolerance ( ABEC 5,7 or 9 ), starting torque ... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry @atmasphere : You have no idea what you are talking about and your statements are boarding stupidity land.Again, after LP cartridge is the most important item in the analog rig.R. | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Dear @lewm : A dedicated external SUT is not builded exactly the same as the transfortmers used in phono stages where the designer knows that the customer can have different MC cartridges ( needs a gain/impedance selector/alternatives. ) and thei... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry Dear @atmasphere : " the choice of cartridge is far less important than people make it ou...""Since when?. Everything the same the cartridge self quality level performance is an makes a difference.All those cartridges I posted are diferent eve... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration Dear @chilli42 : Wit your XV-1s the Kuzma 4-point, Triplanar or the SME V are good match and very good tonearms.Btw, Sutherland is a really good electronics designer and very good with phono stages.Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. | |
| Clearaudio Titanium V2 MC Cartridge Review comments Dear @pyma6 : You can't go wrong with either of these options: https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa3bje-miyajima-labs-madake-snakewood-le-new-cartridges#&gid=1&pid=6 https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa3beg-soundsmith-hyperion-cart... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry Dear @klooker : Here some nice alternatives, very good cartridges coming from well regarded manufacturers. https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa407f-shelter-901-mkiii-cartridges https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa3463-zyx-ultimate-100-over... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Dear @frozentundra : " As a general rule...."I own 5-6 SUTs and owned some others in the past. The ones I own are hard wired to not disturb the cartridge signal through the input/output connectors and are hard wired with 0.5m good IC cables.My ... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Dear @mglik : Dear @mglik : I have no doubt that you love the Zesto unit that's a tube phono stage design.Why LP analog alternative needs a phono stage? mainly to apply the inverse RIAA curve eq. and in second place to amplify the cartridge si... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Dear @terry9 : Well, part of the second post and only an opinion. I think that I have not exactly a misunderstood as you said but that I did not be specific about. Never mind, your post welcomed.R. | |
| Stylus shape? I don't read or know of an audiophile that after 400-500 hours re-tipped his Lyra Titan or even after 1K.R. | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active Dear @frozentundra : "" Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active.""Both can works fine and if you ask on which is better the answer is that mainly depends of each unit quality design and excecution quality of that design.In both designs you ... | |
| Stylus shape? Dear @g_nakamoto : Ortofon use Shibata shape in some of the cartridge models.Btw, """ advanced shape sounds better, costs more, but lasts much longer..."""lasts much longer?: this is a misunderstood because the time lasting an stylus does not de... | |
| Inner tracks vs outer tracks Dear @almart1 : " May be due to better system resolution. Which bothers me a little. "A linear tracking tonearm can't improve per sé the quality recorded sound in those inner LP grooves.Any one can improve the inner grooves quality sound if: the... | |
| Stylus shape? Dear @musicfan2349 : " what shape of stylus yields the best sound.."the stylus shape is only one of several parts in the design and manufacture of a phono cartridge and per sé is important but not determinant in the overall cartridge quality l... |